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Europe Rendezvous

FRANCE 24 English

We take you to the 27 EU member states for a series of exclusive reports and interviews with national and local players, including MEPs. Produced in partnership with the European Union. Saturday at 7:10pm and 7:40pm.

news & politics

All Episodes

00:17:30

EU solidarity in the Azores: Miracle or mirage? (part 1)

Europe Rendezvous ·

2025/10/17

Europe Rendezvous brings you a special programme from the Azores, a beautiful and remote archipelago in the Atlantic. The dramatic volcanic islands constitute an Autonomous Region of Portugal, and also an Outermost Region of the EU. That means their relatively small population of around 240,000 inhabitants receives outsized help from the EU – about €160 million in cohesion funds every year. Despite that investment, the Azores' GDP in 2023 was lower than it was in the 2000s. So how much have EU funds

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00:17:24

EU solidarity in the Azores: Miracle or mirage? (part 2)

Europe Rendezvous ·

2025/10/17

Europe Rendezvous brings you a special programme from the Azores, a beautiful and remote archipelago in the Atlantic. The dramatic volcanic islands constitute an Autonomous Region of Portugal, and also an Outermost Region of the EU. That means their relatively small population of around 240,000 inhabitants receives outsized help from the EU – about €160 million in cohesion funds every year. In this second part of the show, we focus on what is all around the Azores: the Atlantic Ocean.

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00:17:54

Ukraine: A nation at war, yet firmly on the path to...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2024/02/23

Europe Now brings you a special programme from Kyiv to mark the second anniversary of full-scale war in Ukraine. The fighting has killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people and left around a fifth of Ukrainian territory under Russian control, but this has not deterred Kyiv from seeking full membership of the European Union. In this second part of the show, we focus on the reconstruction of the country.

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00:17:27

Spain's EU presidency overshadowed by political...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/11/10

It's not often that an EU member state decides to hold a national election just as it takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union. But that's exactly what the Spanish government did on July 23, just three weeks after starting its six-month stint at the helm of the EU. In this second part of the show, we focus on Spain's scientific research and the importance of EU funds to the country.

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00:17:41

Spain's EU presidency overshadowed by political...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/11/10

It's not often that an EU member state decides to hold a national election just as it takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union. But that's exactly what the Spanish government did on July 23, just three weeks after starting its six-month stint at the helm of the EU. In this first part of the programme, we meet movers and shakers in Madrid to take the political temperature following the inconclusive result of Spain's July 23 parliamentary vote.

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00:17:31

Fighting poverty across the EU - one of the bloc’s...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/06/02

Bulgaria is one of the most recent members of the European Union, and also the poorest. EU funds contribute a vital role to the economy: €12 billion for the period of 2021-2027, and €6.6 billion already thanks to the post-Covid recovery fund.

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00:17:47

Fighting poverty across the EU - one of the bloc’s...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/06/02

How does the European Union use cohesion funds to reduce poverty and inequality across the bloc? Our first stops are in two of the EU’s poorest countries, Bulgaria and Romania, to look at the role that EU aid plays in the areas of education and public transport. We also visit one of Europe’s richest countries - France - to see how the European Union can help to level up parts of the EU that display some surprising inequalities.

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00:17:35

Europe comes to the aid of islands and mountains...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/03/10

Whether they're islands, mountains or territories far from the mainland, such areas are considered by the EU to be regions with a strong natural geographical handicap. The EU's cohesion policy, with its powerful budget, gives these regions substantial resources to help them try to catch up with metropolitan areas. The Europe Now team travels to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe to take a closer look.

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00:17:59

Europe comes to the aid of islands and mountains...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2023/03/10

Whether they're islands, mountains or territories far from the mainland, such areas are considered by the EU to be regions with a strong natural geographical handicap. The EU's cohesion policy, with its powerful budget, gives these regions substantial resources to help them try to catch up with metropolitan areas. The Europe Now team travels to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe to take a closer look.

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00:17:32

Is there trouble in store between Rome and Brussels?

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/12/23

The election in September of the far-right Giorgia Meloni as Italian premier has sent shockwaves around Europe, not least in Brussels. Meloni has raised fears that she'll roll back reforms put in place by her predecessor, encourage a harsher climate when it comes to dealing with asylum seekers and even renegotiate the conditions of the EU's post-Covid Recovery Plan.

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00:18:00

Showdown between Brussels and Budapest: The battle...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/12/09

It went down to the wire, but Budapest and Brussels struck a deal in December that paves the way for the EU to greenlight billions of euros in funding. In return, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's government agreed to more sustained efforts and reforms to fight corruption, as well as giving up its threat to veto a European aid package to Ukraine. This came after months of disagreements over a host of issues – migrants, the rights of minorities, media freedoms, the justice system and most recently, over

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00:17:25

Greece: Emerging from the legacy of the debt crisis...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/10/28

FRANCE 24's Europe team brings you a new series of Europe Now programmes, focusing on "levelling up" – efforts aimed at making life more equal across Europe's many and diverse regions. We examine both national efforts to level up, and the role that EU funding plays in those attempts. EU structural and cohesion funds have become even more important in the light of the war in Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, which threatens to increase unequal living standards around Europe.

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00:17:42

Greece: Emerging from the legacy of the debt crisis...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/10/28

FRANCE 24's Europe team brings you a new series of Europe Now programmes, focusing on "levelling up" – efforts aimed at making life more equal across Europe's many and diverse regions. We examine both national efforts to level up, and the role that EU funding plays in those attempts. EU structural and cohesion funds have become even more important in the light of the war in Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, which threatens to increase unequal living standards around Europe.

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00:17:03

Europe Now: A summer look back on reporting from...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/07/15

Summer is here in France — an opportune moment for us to look back on this last parliamentary season in Europe, which got underway in September 2021.For FRANCE 24's Europe team, our job involves travelling around the continent to hear from locals and decision-makers in EU member states. Here are a few moments that stood out for us in our last few programmes.

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00:34:45

Poland and Hungary: In the shadow of the war in Ukraine

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/06/20

For the latest edition of Europe Now, we head to Poland and Hungary. These two EU members both border Ukraine and have both taken in large numbers of Ukrainian refugees. But on more political issues, their governments' responses to the war have been drastically different. Our team meets lawmakers from across the political spectrum of both countries to discover why the Polish and Hungarian governments have taken such different stances. We also explore other key issues, such as the ever-expanding EU

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00:17:59

Malta: Small islands, big issues for Europe (Part 1)

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/05/06

Independent since 1964, Malta has been a member of the European Union since 2004. FRANCE 24's Europe team takes us to the smallest EU member state by both size and population, where our team looks into several areas in which these islands hold an important place in European affairs.

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00:17:59

Malta: Small islands, big issues for Europe (Part 2)

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/05/06

Independent since 1964, Malta has been a member of the European Union since 2004. FRANCE 24's Europe team takes us to the smallest EU member state by both size and population, where our team looks into several areas in which these islands hold an important place in European affairs.

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00:17:58

Post-Merkel Germany confronts climate challenges...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/01/28

Our Europe Editor Catherine Nicholson and her team take you to Germany as they visit the region in the west of the country which flooded in July 2021. They explore the new government's climate policy, flood and Covid-19 recovery, foreign policy and more.

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00:18:00

Post-Merkel Germany confronts climate challenges...

Europe Rendezvous ·

2022/01/28

Our Europe Editor Catherine Nicholson and her team take you to Germany as they visit the region in the west of the country which flooded in July 2021. They explore the new government's climate policy, flood and Covid-19 recovery, foreign policy and more.

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00:18:00

Exploring Slovenia, 30 years after independence (Part 1)

Europe Rendezvous ·

2021/10/22

In this edition of Europe Now we take you to Slovenia, a country that has been at the crossroads of European empires and power struggles for centuries.This small, mountainous and heavily-forested country is almost completely landlocked. Today, it’s home to just over two million people, many of which love nature and have a soft spot for their country’s prized honey bees.

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